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From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	kune@deine-taler.de, benoit.papillault@free.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zd1211rw: Support for multicast addresses
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:57:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <456F8BF6.7020304@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061130175036.35f0ccf7@localhost.localdomain>

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Why all the trouble do it off work queue? Is someone calling
> set_multicast_list with IRQ's disabled?

Register I/O involves sleeping, so we need to be in process context.

in_atomic() returns non-zero in the set_multicast_list handler. I 
couldn't tell you which codepath this is in.

Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-01  2:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-01  0:58 [PATCH] zd1211rw: Support for multicast addresses Daniel Drake
2006-12-01  1:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-01  1:57   ` Daniel Drake [this message]
2006-12-01  6:27     ` Ulrich Kunitz

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